Cotton County News

Fitch received more than 80 percent of the vote to defeat Steve Russak in Tuesday's election.

Voters in Lawton and Cotton County are going to the polls as a new mayor of Lawton will be elected and a liquor-by-the drink question will be decided.

Southwestern Oklahoma farmers interested in an alternate crop for winter wheat are invited to attend one or all winter canola field meetngs Thursday, Oct.

Lucile Julius, 94, of Moore, Okla., was born on May 30, 1915. Her parents G. L. and Icena Pfeifer lived four miles east of Randlett, Okla.

Two people are behind bars in Cotton County after a major drug bust. Multimedia Watch The Video Authorities made the bust Monday night on Highway 70 near the Randlett exit of I-44. Officials confiscated about a 130 marijuana plants at a residence.

The Department of Public Safety spends thou- sands on them, but videos are closed to the public.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Fred C. Smith Jr. has been appointed as the new district attorney for Comanche and Cotton counties in southwestern Oklahoma.

Agriculture officials in southwest Oklahoma say a winter drought, heavy spring rains and a late freeze have combined for a dismal picture for this year's wheat harvest.